[HECnet] Config Details Required

[Tim Sneddon]

On 8/09/2013 10:45 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:

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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Config Details Required

On 2013-09-08 15:48, Mark Darvill wrote:
HI,

I will be bringing up a new decnet area on hecnet (Area 22) in the
near future.

Can I please have info on the peering for IP and any other config
details that may help. I will be using a DECbrouter 90 (Cisco) V11.1.
So, anyone know if the DECrouter will do, and who would be willing to act
as
a peer?

	Johnny

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Hmmm... Didn't know much about DECbrouter until I looked it up following
these emails. If I have it right
(http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/mds-199909/cd2/network/decbroma.pdf)
all DECbrouters have only one Ethernet interface and a one or more
(depending on model) WAN connections using synchronous serial lines. I am
wondering how this could be used on HECnet. I don't think anyone offers any
synchronous serial way into HECnet, or am I wrong?

That leaves the one Ethernet interface. To be able to use that would need
the bridge (or my user mode router, or some other hardware router) to be on
the same LAN. But at that point there wouldn't be a lot of point having the
DECbrouter as it would not have anything to route.

Have I missed something? Is the DECbrouter 90 (Cisco) a different beast?

No, that's the one.   The DECbrouter, running IOS 10.3 or higher supports GRE/IP, which provides a tunnel across an IP network.   The current HECnet Cisco mesh consists of a Cisco 1800, DECbrouter 90T2, Cisco 2611, Cisco 7206 and other Cisco gear.

Regards, Tim.